Too much power?


I'm either going to buy a Aragon 2004 II or 4004 II. I have a pair of Klipsch kg3.5's, they're sensitivity is 94db so they're not hard to drive. Will the 4004 be too much power or is there no such thing? Thanks
todd76
Well, I went with the 2004(100 wpc). I'm in a fairly small room(18x12) so hopefully it'll be loud enough. Also, the best I've ever really heard were those speakers with an Adcom gfa-5400(125 wpc). That was plenty loud enough(in a different room though) but it lacked in the low end. Either that or the horns were too loud. I have question about ohm load. How do drop the ohm load on an amp without changing the speaker? Can't you wire the amp to speaker 1 and wire speaker 1 to speaker 2. Like in a series? Or is there another way? Thanks.
To reduce impedance, you wire two speakers in parallel. That means that each speaker has its' own set of wires running to it and each speaker will operate independently of each other. To increase impedance, one would wire the speakers in series. That means that the positive terminal of the amp feeds speaker 1 and the negative terminal of the amp feeds speaker 2. You then run a wire from the negative terminal of speaker 1 to speaker 2. If you disconnect one speaker, the other one will not work any longer.

Other than this, one can use high powered resistors to simulate the second speaker in either situation. There would really be no benefit to doing such, so don't waste your time. Sean
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Do you take the + from channel 1 of the amp to the positive of speaker 1. Then take the - from channel 2 of the amp to the negative of speaker 2. Then connect the two open terminals on the speakers together(which would be the - of speaker 1 and the + from speaker 2)? Is that how you do it? Thanks
NO, do not do that. You are in effect cross-connecting the two channels of the amp. Some amps may respond in various manner, but i don't see any of them really liking such a connection.

If you are asking about bridging an amp, that is different from altering the load impedance by connecting speakers in a different manner. What i mentioned above was done using only one channel of the amp with two speakers.

Out of curiosity, what are you attempting to achieve ? Sean
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I just bought an Aragon, it's in shipping right now. I had planned on getting the 4004(200 wpc) but I wound up buying a 2002(100 wpc). I'm just hoping it's going to be loud enough. But I've never heard an amp of that caliber. I was just wondering about how people drop to 4ohm so that the amp puts out more juice. Thanks.